Practical and attractive desktop Twitter app

MetroTwit is a Twitter desktop client with clean and modern design based on Microsoft’s own Metro design language. It aims to offer all the functionality of the web app, but outside your browser.

MetroTwit certainly looks good, with a bold design that’s color customizable and looks great in Windows 7. The downside of that is the app doesn’t have a standard interface. Like most desktop Twitter clients, MetroTwit is split into columns which can be added or deleted at will. You could have your Twitter feed, plus a search and your private messages, for example.

MetroTwit has optional popup and audio notifications, although a busy Twitter feed makes them almost impossibly intrusive! You can also choose your image and link shortening services. Overall, MetroTwit does a good job of putting the web app in a clean, attractive desktop client. What it is currently missing is support for multiple accounts, which many dedicated apps now offer.

MetroTwit is a neat desktop Twitter client, but it’s in very early beta form, so you are likely to encounter bugs. However, we found it to be pretty stable and the design is refreshing.

Added CTRL+D keyboard shortcut for tweet favoritingAdded show retweets option for list columnsAdded color accent previewsFixed user profile long bios to fixed sizeFixed daily and weekly trendsFixed favoriting own tweets not showing starFixed rare crash on application closeFixed some columns incorrectly adding to taskbar countFixed filtering not accepting multiple wordsFixed “My retweets” column not showing clickable linksFixed ads refresh rate for multiple account usersAttempted fix for crashing when blocking usersFixed crashing when Twitter application access revoked for any applicationAttempted fix for media previews to fit in very small displaysFixed left/right arrow crashing when switching to empty columnFixed rare crash on removing accountsFixed “open in browser” opening blank tabsFixed multiple Twitter activities duplication after multiple streams runningFixed backlog flushing crashFixed rare inline error crashFixed rare media preview crashFixed block user tweets showing in searchFixed removing corrupted cache itemsFixed blocked users retweets showing up in columnsAttempted fix for aggregate exceptions crashesAttempted fix null twitter stream eventFixed ad “share tweet” not workingFixed changing themes causes new tweets to not be renderedAttempted fix for crash with status deleted collectionFixed settings multi-account horizontal scrolling overflowFixed combobox dark theme color for Windows 8 Aero BasicFixed Aero theme changingFixed TwitLonger setting not savingFixed infinite loop CPU/API usage when viewing conversation of protected accountFixed random white pixels in UI caused by planets aligning and WPFFixed settings screen hiding sidebar preview when no image selected

Changes

• Added CTRL+D keyboard shortcut for tweet favoritingAdded show retweets option for list columnsAdded color accent previewsFixed user profile long bios to fixed sizeFixed daily and weekly trendsFixed favoriting own tweets not showing starFixed rare crash on application closeFixed some columns incorrectly adding to taskbar countFixed filtering not accepting multiple wordsFixed “My retweets” column not showing clickable linksFixed ads refresh rate for multiple account usersAttempted fix for crashing when blocking usersFixed crashing when Twitter application access revoked for any applicationAttempted fix for media previews to fit in very small displaysFixed left/right arrow crashing when switching to empty columnFixed rare crash on removing accountsFixed “open in browser” opening blank tabsFixed multiple Twitter activities duplication after multiple streams runningFixed backlog flushing crashFixed rare inline error crashFixed rare media preview crashFixed block user tweets showing in searchFixed removing corrupted cache itemsFixed blocked users retweets showing up in columnsAttempted fix for aggregate exceptions crashesAttempted fix null twitter stream eventFixed ad “share tweet” not workingFixed changing themes causes new tweets to not be renderedAttempted fix for crash with status deleted collectionFixed settings multi-account horizontal scrolling overflowFixed combobox dark theme color for Windows 8 Aero BasicFixed Aero theme changingFixed TwitLonger setting not savingFixed infinite loop CPU/API usage when viewing conversation of protected accountFixed random white pixels in UI caused by planets aligning and WPFFixed settings screen hiding sidebar preview when no image selected